Bane friends, fans, followers….footage and photos are needed for the “Holding These Moments” documentary. Have any of these? Know anyone who might? Send to banedocumentary@gmail.com

Things we need from other people!

⁃ Harvest last show (in 1998, Minneapolis)
⁃ “The Note” (May or so 2005) record release show footage
⁃ Steve Neal benefit show video footage (2003 or so) which was also Nick’s final show with the band
⁃ Video or photos from recording “Don’t Wait Up”, specifically the song “Calling Hours”
⁃ Pictures or videos from “The Promise / Bane” tour (2002/2003)
⁃ Edgeday 2000 video (Haverhill, MA)
⁃ Bane recording footage/ photos from any recording session
⁃ Candid photos of Bane hanging out
⁃ Any tour / travel footage or photos (clowning around on tour….anything which shows them basically not playing)

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Late at night, sitting up in Canada, thinking about what matters, what doesn’t, where to put energy, and where not to.

I just got this photo sent to me from one of the villages we support in Haiti with One Hundred For Haiti.

This is a roof donors paid for this year so that a family can sleep safely. In the Ranquitte region, a thatched roof means not only rain falling in and soaking families in the night (families will often crowd into corners or sleep sitting up to avoid getting soaked by leaks).

It also means the threat of bugs falling from the thatch onto the faces of sleeping people and biting them around their mouths. Known as “kissing bugs” the Chagas disease that they transmit can be deadly.

Putting a metal roof on a house changes everything for a family in Haiti. Here’s to one more family who will sleep at night in a house safer from disease and the rain.

KOHTI TUHOA (Helsinki, Finland)
Southern Finnish hardcore punk group comprised of people also familiar from bands such as Speedtrap, Maailmanloppu, Perikato and Kylmä Sota. Naming Framtid and Uskonto on vaara -era Rattus as principal influences. New LP is out on Southern Lord Records.
https://kohtituhoa.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/kohtituhoa/

HAG (Malmö, Sweden)
To the point hardcore with members of AXE RUSH, AGENT ATTITUDE and OBNOXIOUS YOUTH
https://hagalicious.bandcamp.com

HYENAZ (Berlin)
Electronic avant-gardists. Thinkers, dreamers, activists and movers concerned with the multiple, with the alien-self, and above all with possibilities for self and social transformation through artistic practise and the performance of ritual.
https://hyenazhyenaz.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/hyenazhyenaz/

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Sitting up late writing to Haitians directly and apologizing on behalf of the United States for the words of our self-imposed god-king. I am so upset. It wavers between rage that fills my eyes with tears and makes me think thoughts I can’t type here, and just a heavy sadness mixed with determination as I realize how much work there is to do and how important it is to make sure we do whatever we can to help it get done right, and on Haitian terms.

I had been excited this week to begin tons of work on a major anti-oppression and anti-rape initiative which will take the efforts we’ve accomplished in that area in the last year and catapult them into the stratosphere. My friends in Haiti and I are working on plans along with activists here in the states who are offering solid ideas on how to help transform the societal imbalances which lead to violence and to put it all in Haitian hands as trainers for their own people. Now instead of just wanting and hoping to see that dream become a reality I feel that we owe it to the people there to see it through, given that our president today basically called for racial purity, United States supremacy, and once again helped to establish a foundation upon which violence against foreigners can safely stand. And he did it while cutting down a country as subhuman who have survived more in the last eight years than most of us will ever understand or know firsthand.

It is the anniversary of the quake now. Its well after midnight. I was in Haiti half a year before the quake, meeting friends who have lasted in my life since then, and establishing bonds which could never be broken or even bent by the President’s hateful words today.

There’s no point to this post other than to just connect. Part of Trump’s plan is to overwhelm us all on an individual level. To make us think that we are the only ones who are so confused. The idea is to make us feel so burnt out and numb that each individual news story and the narrative overall loses its impact. And in doing so to diminish our desire to take action against him and these policies. The effect is to isolate us and to leave us feeling helpless and alone. Many times he’s succeeded at that: I see and hear the news and I feel like there’s just too much to fight against. But not tonight. Tonight Trump failed. His words reset my determination. The more we connect as activists and as friends, the less power our so called leaders have over us as a mass of helpless individuals seemingly in need of their guidance.

An hour ago as we were signing off for the night, I said to Nathan Hamlin Bean, devoted activist and on the board of One Hundred For Haiti, “Haiti wins in the end. Lets help that happen”.

For the people we’ve supported, for the ones we haven’t even met yet, for the future of a small country which has an immense beauty to its people and its land which those who have been there know and love, and for the idea that people are defined by far more than borders and validated by more than their material wealth, tonight from Seattle I stand with Haiti.

#StandWithHaiti

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We just posted our annual year end review for ONE HUNDRED FOR HAITI to share our accomplishments for 2017. All of this was only possible with the help of people like you who stepped up to take part, and offer time, energy, and resources.

Check out the update by clicking on this photo of Haitian kids eating food where they had none before…

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Seattle metal radio gods Kevin Diers and Ian Res of KISW METAL SHOP took a few minutes to talk spoken word, the Punk Rock Pariah Radio show, gummy candies, the upcoming Between Earth & Sky record, and more recently. Check it out and waste 25 perfectly good minutes by clicking on the graphic above.

We also talk about the upcoming Rumble in Chicago which will come about this April and will see hardcore legends Strife, Racetraitor and others joining dozens of other incredible bands.

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Last night the Vegan Black Metal Chef sat down with Cameron Collins and me to record episode #49 of our Punk Rock Pariah podcast / radio show and talk about how he became a vegan black metal chef and what it was like growing up amidst the metal scene in Tampa, FL. We also talked about vegan cooking and his amazing new cookbook, The Seitanic Spellbook. Give it a listen now!

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– The 90s vs today
– The effects of social media
– Paul Bearer jokes
– My journey as a speaker
– The idea of emotional music as a term/concept
– the work One Hundred For Haiti does for the people of Haiti

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Vermont and Northeast friends: I had such an incredible time this weekend with two back to back spoken word events December 1st and 2nd on “Changing the World Without Having a Clue” here in Vermont. Thanks to Spencer and Renee Crispe and Matt Kimball for all the work they did putting these events together, and especially for branching out and bringing in audience members from the widest range in the local communities. And for the people who came from other states to be here at the shows this weekend.

December 1st in Brattleboro Vermont at Headroom Stages
December 2nd in Burlington Vermont at the Blackbox Theater

The idea for these events is always the same: Come share ideas, speak out, be clueless, and let’s change the world.

On a day when I am trying to reconcile the morality, compassion, and ethics of not eating or killing animals with the idea that exotic trophy hunters should be effectively hunted and turned into trophies themselves…

I find solace in the work being done by Giacomo Xjoshx Giorgi who as director, along with the facebookless and brilliant Raffa as Assistant Director, are in South Africa this week filming interviews for On The Wild Side: a documentary film in production now around the planet that explores the anti-hunting movement worldwide.

This film will support and uphold the anti-hunting movement on a wide range of fronts. It will be edited this winter. I’m narrating the film and producing as well and couldn’t be more honored to be working with Giacomo and Raffa on it especially during a time like this.